Istorie şi ucronie

Abstract

The principle underlying the reconstruction of history "as things happened", dominant for centuries in historiography, derives its legitimacy from the need to clearly circumscribe the object of research, from the need to assume a deontological norm of the researcher regarding the respect of scientific objectivity and, last but not least, of the subordination of science History of some reasonable pragmatic functions: epistemological, explanatory; moral, shaping human behavior. Beyond this principle, History as a science knows slips, being ideologically subordinated to imperialist, nationalist, class interests. In recent historiography, a new principle "what would have happened if?" of counterfactual history. Analyzing the force vectors of this new history, we will seek to explore how the writing of history, according to the two historiographies, is reflected in the learning of history as a school discipline.